| | Island |  | Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Borgo Pr
Category: Book
Buy Used: $100.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 5467139
Media: Hardcover
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.5 x 1
ISBN: 0809590484
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780809590483
ASIN: 0809590484
Publication Date: June 1991
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Condition: hardcover harper and row 1962 with dustjacket. dj has chunk tears around corners of spine, and edgewear. cover is a little spotty and faded, pages are unmarked. I package carefully.
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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and -- to his amazement -- give him hope.
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 exploration of the here and now, the there and later October 30, 2008
A man arrives on an Island to engineer an oil deal. He begins to like the place. It is a nice place. But one of the old money family wants to sell it out for greater access to the contents of a Sears-Roebuck catalog. In the end evil triumphs because good is pacifist and big oil money can buy more guns.
The hope for a sane society October 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For some reason this book is no where near as popular as Brave New World. I suppose it's because Brave New World is about our culture exagerated into the future, whereas Island is about extreme changes in our world views.
Island is about looking at existence and reality from a sane perspective, and by this I mean that it puts human ends above all else. Why tolerate and perpetuate instituations and modes of thought that alienate humans from themselves, their environment and each other? This book helps point out how much of our behaviour is learned, and how much of what we consider "natural", is simply human construction.
I think the best way to describe it is as John Lennon's song Imagine, in book form.
I think everyone should read this book.
Utopia Vs Dystopia August 26, 2008
If you read a Brave New World you have to read also this one.
Is the more mature vision of a possible better world from Huxley totally different that the first dystopia.
It was written back in the 60's but the book remains actual...
Published in 1962, but still relevant! August 14, 2008
I absolutely loved this book! Eckhart Tolle in "The Power of Now" actually references this book and that is how I heard of it. Despite the fact that much of the book is ruled by long monologues from the characters, I enjoyed it all. Huxley had an interesting view of what a society can become when it takes the best of the Eastern and Western worlds combine.
A tool to living... December 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a fan of "Brave New World" as well as Huxley himself and without hesitation picked up this enlightening book. I believe this book invokes numerous topics of discussion be it politics, capitalism, individuality, spirituality, etc. I personally feel out of all those components I listed above Huxley emphasizes the concept of spirituality, particularly Buddhist philosophies. I believe Will Faranby was both a protagonist and a antagonist, but thats open to interpretation. Huxley wrote this book giving the reader an opportunity to see how spirituality shapes and impacts a persons perception of him/herself (the being) and the world. The book centered around the progression of Will Faranby's introspective of consciousness. Huxley incorporated hallucinogenics aka moksha-medicine as being totally appropriate and relevant to the characters development, thus solidifying Farnaby's introspective of himself. In essence, the moksha-medicine was an eye-opening, yet intense experience that ultimately gave the main character a deeper awareness to the world and his own personal existence (the being).
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